Amateur Astronomical Projects and/or Targets of Opportunity

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I should point out, mainly for the benefit of John and Wolfgang, that these projects are mainly done for my interest and amusement rather than with a view to subsequent publication in a learned magazine.

MAJOR PROJECTS

594 Newly Discovered Red Dwarf Binary Pairs

Collected Supernova Images - 2007 and 2008

Deep Imaging in Hydrogen Alpha

Red Variable Stars in the Perseus Double Cluster

Research Topics in Infra-Red Astronomy

Stellar Twins

The Amateur Red Dwarf Survey 2007-2008

The Variable Stars AW, BE, BF and V380 ORI

The Variable Stars BP, CQ and RR TAU

The "Big Images from Small Telescopes" series

Big Images from Small Telescopes - Gamma Cygni Big Images from Small Telescopes - NGC 281 Big Images from Small Telescopes - The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Orion
Big Images from Small Telescopes - The California Nebula Big Images from Small Telescopes IC 1618 in Cygnus NGC 2359 - More big images from small telescopes

The Messier Ten Minute Challenge - due to be completed during 2008

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The "What can I image in X minutes" series

What can I image in 5 minutes? What can I image in the far Southern Sky in under 5 minutes? (2) The Eta Carinae Emission Nebula - central portion What can I image in 60 seconds?
What can I image in the far Southern Sky in under 10 minutes? (1) The Emission Nebula called the Tarantula Nebula What can I image in the far Southern Sky in under 10 minutes? (2) The Galaxy called Centaurus A What can I image in the Southern Sky in under 5 minutes? (1) The Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae

MINOR PROJECTS

COMETS
Comet 17P/Holmes Comet 8P Tuttle - December 16th 2007 Comet Holmes - Changes December 5th to December 14th 2007
Comet C/2006 S5 Hill - December 9th 2007 Comet 8P Tuttle - December 27th 2007 Comet 29P Schwassmann-Wachmann - December 2007 and January 2008

DARK NEBULAE
Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae LDN 1512 Dark nebulae in M24 Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae LDN 327 and 323
Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae (LDN 497) A little known dark nebula in Monoceros?

DOUBLE STARS
A Possible New Common Proper Motion Pair? Colour contrasting double stars Why has this pair been listed?

IMAGING PROJECTS
Baade’s Window Markarian's Chain: Galaxy Group (Virgo & Coma Berenices) Galaxy group in Pisces
NGC 4536 - Galaxy in Virgo "Hubble's Variable nebula" - NGC 2261 Galaxy cluster Abell 154
NGC 2403 (Caldwell 7) - a galaxy in Camelopardalis The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros NGC 5216 and 5218 - Keenan's System in Ursa Major
Exploring the Digitized Sky Survey NGC 559 (Caldwell 8) - an open cluster in Cassiopeia Exploring the Digitized Sky Survey NGC 559 (Caldwell 8) - an open cluster in Cassiopeia
NGC 7023 (Caldwell 4) - a reflection nebula in Cepheus IC 342 (Caldwell 5) - a galaxy in Camelopardalis IC 1805 a bright nebula in Cassiopeia
Favourite Exhibits from the Galactic Zoo (1) Favourite Exhibits from the Galactic Zoo (2) Lesser Known Galaxy Clusters - NGC 4270 in Virgo
Wide angle imaging of the far Southern Sky (1) Wide angle imaging of the far Southern Sky (2) M43 - Overshadowed by its more famous neighbour!
Collected quasar images - 2007/08 Exploring the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2) NGC 4536 - Galaxy in Virgo

NARROW BAND IMAGING
The Hubble Palette The Hubble Palette 2 Alternatives to the Hubble Palette

OPEN CLUSTERS
Classifying the Berkeley Open Clusters

OUR NEAREST NEIGHBOURS
Our nearest neighbours - CN Leo Our nearest neighbour - SO 0253-1652 Our nearest neighbours - UV CETI
Our nearest neighbours - EZ AQR Our nearest neighbours - 61 CYG sometimes called Bessel's Star Our nearest neighbour - WX UMA
Annotated Map of the Moon Annotated Map of the Moon (2) Clavius, Longomontanus and Maginus plus the surrounding areas.

MZ SGE - a missing variable star? VARIABLE STARS Variable stars in Orion - nice amateur targets
Infrared variables in the field of OO VUL High Profile Variable Stars - RX AND Pre-discovery Images of the Nova V838 Mon
Two previously unreported variable stars in Andromeda and Camelopardalis? Suspected infrared variable stars near M27 A newly reported variable star in Lacerta?
R CRB - a sooty star? Nova Monitoring Red Variables in NGC 6883 (Cygnus)
Outburst of YZ CNC - December 2007 Outburst of SY CNC - December 2007 Outburst of SS AUR - December 2007

Demonstration of Proper Motion

Revised NLTT Catalog #21302 with the alternative name of GJ 339.1 - a White Dwarf.

Images taken in 1954, 1984 and 1991. Each is 10 x 10 arc minutes

Approximate position 09 15 56 +53 25 24 in Ursa Major

In collaboration with the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory

Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.

This page was last updated on February 24th 2008.